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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1924-7-30, Page 2Atee.lenee. CONSIDER THE LOWLY TOAD Yoracivias Hunter of Harmful Unapprecia By Mies el, Going. The toad is not freeze -reelect, nor heautifelnor strong, ern swift, nor grateful. Neither is he musical ex. vest for a, little while in the sering. One wondere therefore why he Is the hero or se many wonder tale& More Uatrue starker are told and bellevea about let» than about any other creu- tura of the flail:. We hear that whoever henales hira la punished by were, that if be be killed the cows on the fent where he dee give bloody milk, and that his ineath pawns bablee. Scary Mine stories, one and all! According to a pleasanter old belief, a toad in the cel - ler brings luck to tbo house. Shake. opeare says, "the toad, ugly and venomous, has yet a precicue jewel in Tilo head;" but the Jewel .1.1 08 imagin. ary as the venom. When so much that fe false has been told and believed abeut the toad it ia time that we learned eeine truth about elm. Great Help to Farmers. The value of birds, as destroyers of insect pests is now recognized, bu the great help Which the toad gives to farmers throughout the growing sea son is not appreciated, because it le not known. "It is ,eetimeted," says The Techei cal World, "a:et en average toad is worth to the termer live dollars a year just for the cutworms which it des. treys. But this is ouly one Item. The amount a toad will eat Is astonishing, A, large specimen has been known to devour a hundred rose beetles at a siegle meal. One toad needed seven ty-seven "thousand -legs" to satisfy his appetite, another fifty-five army worms and a third sixty -flee gypsy moth cat- erpillars. Still another toad ate thirty- five large celery worms in three hours, while a fifth accepted eighty-six flies, fed to him in less than ten minutes. Indeed it has been suggested that the farmers of the country should hatch and rear toads to help them he the eummer-long warfare with greedy in - setts. But the one thing necessary is that they be protected from their enemies, and some of their worst enemies are small boys, who, through mere thougatiesenees, kill toads when- ever they get the cbaere. Off the coast of New Hampshire there is a group of nine islands, sur- rounded by rock and reef, and called "The Shoals." They are smiten for- ever by the ocean winds, and they are so rocky that ouly herbs, grasses and bushes can get foothold on them. But there, Celia Tbaxter, whose lovely verses are so familiar, undertook to make a garden. Earth was gathered, here a little and there a little, out of pockets in the rock, and spread deep- ly le a long narrow strip, and here the garden grew. When I saw it it was a glory of color, but in its early days of struggle it was crawled over and de- voured by slugs, till Its ralstrese was in despair. "Every living creature has its enemy," said the friend to whom 8110 tole her woes, "and the enemy of the slug is the toad. You must get toads." There were no toads on The Sh,.a.s, so Celia Thaxter sent to the malerand for them. Two boys caught sixty and sent thein to her in a wood- en hex filled with earth and covered with wire teeing. When the box ar- rived there were three thirsty -looking toads in sight, sitting on a mound of dry sole Only three! What a disap- pointment But pitying their thirst and feyness, Celia Thaxter showered them with water, and behold! the fire baked earth heaved tumultuously; uP came dungy heads and bright eyes by the dozen. The whole sixty were treed ie the eland garden, and as : summer went on they grow as round as apples and the mischievous eluge Alsappeared. Slugs are seldom seen except In dirk rainy weather. Dttring sunny hours they sleep, under boards and Acmes. They are busy ail night eat- ing lebtuce, and other growing plants, but the gardener does rust Pee them, and so does not know where to place the blame for the misehief done te 1118 Slugs—Also a Sweet, Though terl Singer. i Eggs Hatoh lealckly, Soon after the wuter-song begins we call fina.toad'a eggs—black speeke, en- closed in long curly ropes of Jelly', which are tangled amoug the weeds ln thellow writer. The jelly Is so clear that eve can see, by the Help of a poeket lona, somethine ef the mutter- , ful proceee by which Nature makes ' the black specels into living creatures, About four daya .after the eggs are lahrlittle tadpoles \veggie out of the jelly and cling to any hold they can flua in the water. When toad babies leave the egg they bave neither mouths nor eyes. On each little hend Is a pair of sticky butm:3 callei eFuciters," and with theee the tiny creatures hang in black buticlies to the water weeds, Now the Jelly which has done its work begins . to melt away. There are souse swol- len gray lump in it—eggs. which fail- ed to hatch and are beginning to de- cay. If the tadpoles are being raise(' indoors, such eggs mast be removed. lest they poison the water nursery, Every toad or frog of whatever sort g e under water as a tadpole, and so do the salainenders which have so many popular names --mud pup. p1, newts, and efts, All these vare eus tad oles, when look much alike, but they differ great- ly in the time they talce to develop the adultoral, Toed tadpolee mature quickly. Three or four days after thee leave the egg each becomes Provided With t we pretty neck frills. These are the gills, which enable tadpoles to breathe under water as do fish, Baby toads ten days old are lively polywogs, as black as coal, wite tails that wriggle cenetaetly and with lit - Le round mouths searching forever for something to eat. Thee mouths bave horny jaws for biting off the tips of largo plants, or for scraping tiny ones from their foot-hald. By this time the tadpoles can see and their gills are covered. / When the tadpole begins to be a toad, in latter June or July, the first eign of change is the buchlerg out of hi legs. aye or a fortnight later front legs suddenly appear. Mean- time the mouth and eyes grow larger. aol the s pe of the head changes till we have a strange -looking creature —. a little toad with a long tail. By this time he prefers land to water. He has been changed within as well as with- out,' and is now breathing by tun j Soon his Mil shortens and vanishes,' and behold! a perfect toad—but with a' eatin-smnoth skin. He sheds his coat every few weeks and each new suit is rougher and more warty than the last.' His skin has the wonderful posver; of changing color, so that he matches Iris surroundings, and thus is conceal ed from hungry enemies. And he needs this protection, sorely. • vegetables. But toads, like slugs, are out an night. Thus the toad misses the credit he deserves as a mighty hunter. Toad's Tongue a Trap. The tongue of the teed is e. trap to catch his living, moving food. It is fastened to the front of his mouth. Were your 'mvuth like this, your tongue would be rooted just behind your low- er front teetb, with IM tip down your throat, The thud can dart the whole length 01 1115 tongue out into the air, and its surface is sticky. If a fly cameo within Say two inches of his heed, there is no movement of his body. Quick as lightning hie tongue thence forth and the fly ls, cangla If the toad gets little credit for Ida naming, he gets lees for his singing. Yet he can sing and sweetly too, He spencer the winter in wine, snug hole, fest asleep, and as 50011 as he wakes he goes down the nearest pool and there lifts up'his voice in the Wing eeng, It is a eort, drowsy musical trill- ing and hes been called the sweetest eound In nature. In New England this song, sung by male tofu% only, is heard in April or May. In the Ohio valley it may flee from the pools In Maren, ef winter cameo howling back the mimic steps, till eunshine and warmth return, It may be beard, day or retest, 011 July. , City engineers attending the Canadian Good Roads Convention snapped at et,. Andrew's-by-the.Sea. Frani left to right, they are: Mr, Belau, 3. A. Duchastel, Outremont; P. E. Jarman, Westmount, and R. Ti. Parson, Teter- boro. Last of Eminent Victorians KeOrtingSehe Cut Flowers In a small house in Cheetea'sart It is easy to keep flowers fresh if Fresh. Active at. Age of 92. Colony lives a venerable Nvonlein Xviso, the right precaution/5 are taken right as a child at six years, hearkened to front the start. In the first place you the guns saluting the coronation of sbould cut the blooms in the Morning Queen Victoria, This venerable' lady before the sun has had time to cause them to wilt any. Then they should whose memory goes built to the very bit' the be, placed in large vases that give the E. M. Ward, the artiet, and the small stems plenty of room and that are houee in Chelsea was full to over- deep enough so the water can 00010up almost to the flowers, This, is nem. sary to fill• the stems perfectly, Keep them in a cool place thee is not sub- iect to drafts. After they stay here Rowing the other day when potables from all walks of life called to con- gratulate her on Iter ninety-second birthday. j She relates that the present ex -Ger- for a few hours they are ready to use man Emperor eves sent by the Crown on the table or any place you want P in f grandmother in the trope that "he "'pug wind' and "in reinnin fresh' would be put in his proper place." As ordinarily. They should be treated in indeed he was, for Queen Victoria this same way if you desire to ship found it necessary to conduct the boy them,. and I have sent flowers for a, thou:rand eellea and had them come from the room by fereb and then to ) tbrougb in good shape. They 811001(1 adininister a spanking to the future "All Higbest." be packed in a box just .large enough Mrs. Ward remembers the great to bold them without crowding, and painters of miteVIctorian days as this should be lined with one.or more sheets of oiled paper (wax paper), and young men. Maelise, Millais Leigh - The ranks of the little toads are ruthlessly thinned. They have many, enemies. Crows and hawks love to eat them, so do ducks, and hens; but the most ruthless of all their foes are' snakes. We should wish prosperityend long life to the young toad hiding in the moist grass, for he is one of our great-, est bleseings. He helps to keep the house free from mosquitoes, flies and vermin, and the garden safe from a host of greedy enemies. And so there Is some truth in the old saying, "ere toad in the cellar brings luck to the: house." iThe Apple Includes the Core. 1 "His hive for her Is the core of the situation." "Ought to be—she'e the apple of his eye." A Successful Truant. Recently closed for repairs, Water- loo Bridge, described as the noblest bridge in Europe, owes its existence to a farmer's son, who later In We de- veloped a genius for engineering. The boy was John Rennie, and 80 keen was his interest in machinery! 'net he frequently absented himself from school, spending lila time at al millwright's when he should have boon (11 1)18 1218008. Out of this pareton for mechanics 1 grew some or the met notable en_! gingering feats of the past century,' among them the building of South- wark Bridge, London Bridge, /natty bridges in Scotland, and harbors and docks all over the kingdom, including those at Grimsby, Holyhead, Hull, and the Beet India 'Dock, London. In ad- dition he recialmeci large areas of land threatened by the soa. So great was the esteem .with which the nation regarded him that when he died at lee age of sixty, the erstwhile farmer's son received the honor of in- termeat In St. Pattie Cathedral. 1117 18 visit 1 10781 them, not in the direct sunlight or ton, AinneTadenia, Poynter, Mulreadse inside this with commoe tissue. The water on the stems when remove(1 Fred Walker Frith and many more. from the vase is sufficient, but be care. Not mily in her own fleld—that of fel to keep it off the blooms. Wrap painting—did Mrs. Word know the the box well and it will go reasonable great 'personalities of the Victorian era, but she was on terms of intimacy distances all right.--Ae 11. with those who ennobled literature. Sire has mute to tell conceruing Dick- Training Women Doctors. ens, wisoni ehe knew well, She was The Jubilee of the London (Royal • One of a Pepper party it Deletes' Free Hospital) Scheel of Medicine for house when Cruthshank, win, "had at 'women, part of the University of Lon. that time developed a mania for total eme will be celebrated in October. abstinence, and a seeing me about to At the present time there aro nearly sip a glass of wine, snatched the glass- 400 women students who pass on for from me to dash it cot the floor. I their hospital training to the Royal had never seen Melrose so angry. eyes) Hospital, the governors of which To Cruikshank he said: "How dare institution made possible from the You touch Mrs. Ward's gess? 1t is an first the training neceeary for fully - unpardonable liberty. What do you qualified women doctors. mean? Because some one you know This is the only centre of medical was a drunkard for forty years it is tratnlzig oaolusively for women in the not for you to ebject to any lulu:mere es. FLYING OPERATIONS DURING 1924 BRITAIN'S MOST Growth of Work Assignecl Royal Crmatlian Air Force -- Increase in PlitterfAS 4114 StirVeye, 1. pregreenere ref flying operetients to nutehine test% ete., 300 Motile; tering treining for R,G.A,F. eel -00e pilots and cadent, 1,000 helmet Leta', 1,300 home, 1 Melee Service. Plying as neces- sary in connectfou with Militia Oeureces of Distinction et. lesquIsualt, Sarceo, Sbeebrooke, Patin/ewe, and Halithe, $2 hours. Department of the inferior. Forestry Drapch,—Patrol 01 1.128 for- est areas irt the Railway Belt Of Bre tell Columbia in period.% of Unusual ithe hazard, 40 hours/ routine patrols of the forest 'reserves' cm the eastern elope of the Rocky IVfountains from the Clearwater river to the Interne. Beurularyee00 hours.; patrols of the foreste in 1VMM-tabu, %set, uorth, and north-west of Lake Winnipeg and experimental patrols over northeast- ern Saskatchewan, 800 hours; sketch mapping of young timber growth areas in the French river section Ontario 20 hours; expelemental work in for- est surveying by eerie! photography, 30 hours; total, 1,590 hours. Topographical Survey Branch—Ver. tica4 pbotegraphy M the .Edmeeton dis- trict, or an area of 520 equere mile% in the vicinity of Vermilion, of an area of 2,092 square miles, and in the Wainwright distriot, .Alberta, all for map revision purposes, .59 hours/ 'oblique photography of an area of 3,224 square miles in the vicinity of Edmonton, Alta. for map revision 24 The actual mapping work is under the hours; oblique photography, over Topographical Survey and as will be ' water courses in northern Saskatche- eeen from the large .amount of work wan, including the Churchill and Rein- pnoposed, progressCis being made in deer rivers, Reindeer, Churchill, and the development of methods of utiliz- Ile a la Crosse lakes, for mapping pule Mg the information shown on aerial poses, 35 hours; • oblique photography photographs for practical mapping over water courses in the Xississing purposes. a e distilet, and of Crosse Lake and The fact that aircraft can be used 010080 destricts, -Manitoba, for map - successfully in forest protection is Ping puepoees, 49. hours; oblique now fully established. The only re- PrehrisototognrapinhytheincocounntnieecatolofuDwigibtlyznitarp maining step is to perfect organiza- tion and develop equipment at costs mouth, and Shelburne, Nova Scotia, within the eeconomic means ef fotest 23 hours; vertical plictography in the authorities, The R.O.A.F. and the ero. godis;ftr,INctss.,of10Whoinndszso;rtoatanld, minion Forest Service are bending all National Parks. --Routine fire patrols 21400ewhoGurlas.s- I their energies to this end. The neces- I sazy practical experience and working knowledge of essential factors In - ' volved in reducing costs are being oh tamed through large sale air opera - be Undereeken this seerfou be the Royal Canadian Air Force Ter ether Federal Government aePartmente has now been drewn• up, The steady growth of ,thls work Is the hest proof of its neefuluess etrul each year brings an increase In the number, variety,' and extent of the operations called for from the Air Fore by other braealthe ot the government set -vice, ert In the Peet, the Work ef the For- estry and Survey Bram:thee of the De- partnient of the Interior is the largest item on the progranune, The plans for 1924, however, show an important addition whioh opens Up a neo' Phesse et activity eviation, This is a re -1 quest from the Fisheries lerench of ' the Department of Marine and' Fisher - les for a continuance, and a large ex- tension, of the experimental patrols carried out last year on the Pacific coast for the prevention of illegal flab.- 1 ing and other allied work in connec- tion with flsberlee protection. ' The base chosen is at Prince Rupert and extensive patrols will be carried out from there covering the entire coast of northern British Columbia and the islands adjacent to it The. success of the photographic operations undertaken for the Topo- graphical Survey Breach of the De- partment of the Interior is best shown in the large increase in the area to be covered by aerial surveys this year. In the Waterton Lakes National Park, Included under patrols of forest reel serves on eastern slope of Rockies for Forestry Branch; photograpba of is - tions in Manitoba and Alberta. These lands In Georgian Bay for survey pur- operations to -day serve a double pure, poses, 15 hours: Pose. They provide patrols for areas! 01Wvataetrerp.pseowv,0LBradneveho.--optheeattosgraapuhda otherwise impossible of protection, sites for future development, 10 hours. grounds in which arganizatioe and and at the same time serve as proving points nup Transportation of Indian agents to Department of Indian Affairs. — th3e, the needs of all forest pretective agen. niaterial can be developed suite/14o' ales. C Norwaylab 011leounsgeenaegye,nalys hours. Details of the programme'are given Department of Marine and Fisher - below with an estimate of the flying igs.—Fishery patrols to prevent it- em° required to carry out each opera - legal fishing In British Columbia cease tion:— al waters, 340 hours, I Departinent of National Defence. Grand total for all Federal Depart - Air Service. ---Air Force practice, ments, 3,515 hours. A Good Job for a Lazy Man. I $50,000 Table Prop. A wealthy man insisted that his An old art dealer el Antwerp, on his 1 head gardener should take as an ape Nvay up six flights of stairs to examine Prentice a boy in whom he was in- terested,. The boy was laze, and the a woman on the fourth II , who amne pictures, was 'offered a chair by gardener was not at all pleased af deed that he was out of breath, having such a youth thrust on him. While he rested on the chair Ile hare Sonia time afterward his employer pened to glance into a room of the while walking in the garden came up -1 woman's house, and he Saw a couple of chairs and a rickety table, under on his gardener and said: „, "Well, John, how le my young friend one leg of which was a book. I His practised eye noticed fmneediate- getting on?" "011, he's dein' fine," replied the gate 1 ly that the book was bound in parch- dener, smilings "lie's working away meet made from iznn Id there at the very job that suits bim." "I'm glad to hear that. What may it ber "Chasing snails off the walks,' was the cutting reply. glass of sberry." ' British Empire, and today its medical, students inelvde women from eighteen) Thaelteray was another friend. Mrs. eeentriees I Ward having offended her relatives by r se thousand graduates of the Lon- don School of Medicine for Women are reason of her marriage, Thackeray ad- vised her "to have nothing to do with s of relatives, to keep them well at a dis-; world. mace, as they were no good to auy one." . Quite Right, Her Complaint. Margaret was housemaid In the The lecturer seas warming it hie Blank family, the members of which subject, and presently come with an are given to quarrelling. One morn - eloquent burst to the statement: ing Margaret sought her mistress and "Man, as we have seen, is a pro. gave notice, elre. Blank was distrees- gressive being, "but many ether crea- ed and unwilling tro part with so ex- turee are stalionary. Take the ase, cetera a setvant. • for example: always and everywhere "And are you really going to leave the ass la the same creature: gee US, Maragaret?" she asked, sadly. never have seen, and never will see, "What is the matter? Haven't we al. a more perfect ass than you see at the ways treated you as one oe the present moment." family?" ---e--- "Yis, mune" replied the girl, ''an' A deserved kick helps us more than Oi've shtood it as long tier 01'm goin' an undeserved pat. to, mum." .—AND THE WORST IS YET TO COME L L teee:_tse,..ee0sts-4er-szete. e...4frvreAttro+ot, So Could Mother. It was in the drawing class at the school. "Sargent was a great artist," said the teacher. "With one stroke he could change a smiling face to a sor- rowful one." "That ain't nothine" piped up John - nee "Ile mother does that to me lots of times." Vocational Training, "Did that agricultural course your boy took In college help him any in his work?" "Yee, indeed. He's In the city now, writing 'Back to the Farm' pleeee for the magazines." -_._._.....e My, My, What a Memory! 11011811, svho is seven years old, had gene to the hospital for a alight opera, tion, She looked round ,and seemed Puzzled, Finally she said to the nurse, "My, but things do look changed here!" "Have you been here before?". asked the nurse, much astonished, "Wily, yes; I was born here," was the Startling answer. —0— The Game They leley. "Great game, 111080 women play pre- tending to want to pay each other's carfare," "A gheat game, you eal?" "Yes; the, 0110 Who can take the 128508 110 get her tlekels out veins." ..-----ee.----. • Masts 180 Feet High, The 121(111011 11111518 of sailing vessele are from 180 to 180 feet. The dealer obtained permission to , examine it 'closely, and found that was one of the three extant copies of an old Latin work for which he knew he could get a high price. The woman trold him that the could neither read nor write, and that she had picked the book up because it was , of "just the right thickness to keep her table steady," The earner took the book, sold It to I a collector, and rewarded the sternat 'with ;25,000—half the proceeds of the 8 o, '0 He Wanted to Meet the Mouse. We have never liked the Idea of frightening 011111000 into quiet and submission. 'ehe Immature nervous organization of the 011111 often suffers severely from such treatment. But there are some strong souls ameng the youngsters about whom we need not ` worry; they are net easily scared, One of them, es we read in the iLr.,t) forme is three years else One even - Ing after. be had been put to bed he beget to wail, and Mary,the ntald, was requested to soothe hint After a short lull the crying broke out again with renewed. vigor, and pees was in- structed to investigate the trouble. "Wilke all this noble about, you young rascal?" he dome/iced "Well, Mary, said if s kept on eying b a great leg mouse With big green eyes WOulti come rtud sit on the 01111 of thy 1 bed, and I've kept on, but it hasn't come yee CURIOUS COLONY DIE "ELLIS ISLAND" OF THE OLD COUNTRY, Atlantic Park Hostel Houses Emigrants Awaiting Trans- port to the United States, I hae the unique mcperience recent- ly, writes an /Singlet 1ournelist, or paying a visit bo what Is perhape the strangeat 'mot in Britain -01m weiell, -while situated in that typically Eng• llsh country of learapshire, is yet, if one ts to judge by Its inbabeants, a Russian village! Whet and where IS the strange place? It is at Eastleigh, about five milers front, Bouthantpton, and, while it le in Ito (sense an elated, the name which has been given to It—Brits/Me "Ellie Island" ---conveys the best des• eription of it, although its comforts are far superior to thee° of the latter piece. A Horne for Emigrants. A collection of huts and airshiP hangars which have been converted into boxnee and recreatiou, rooms, At. lantie Park Hostel—to give its proper name -1s a temporary borne for mane thoueands of emigrents—MoatlY RUM s' and h I It Id time to time in England owing to the feet that the emigration quota in A I is Under the United States emigration laws only a certain number of emi- grants from each country are allowed to land on Anierioan soil wIthin spece eled times; thus emigrants who reacb Southampton when the quota hair been exhausted are taken to Atlantic Park and housed and fed there until the next quota is opened 10 America. Atlantic Crossed in Vain. When / visited Atlantic Park Hos- tel I discovered a very happy and con- tented colony of almost a thousand emigrants, TWO hundred or them had crossed the Atlantic only to be turned back, within sight of the promised land, when they reached Ellis Island. The hostel ektenes over the area of twenty-five acres and the huts in which the emigrants live are provided vrith every reasonable comfort. The occupants are encouraged to beautify their temporary homes, which they are ready and eager to do. There is a large and well-equipped hospital ready to deal with any outbreak of disease—a contingency wbich, of course, must be .guarded against fu such circumstances—white, as the emigrants comprise both Jetts and Gentiles, there aro two different lcie chens with special cooks, One for Kosher (Jewish food) and the other for ordinary food. After Twenty Years. The Inhabitants are waited upon in the dining-roores by waitresses. There Is a large reception room, and a foot. ball field, as well as iesehoel, at which the young ones are taught various sub- jects, principally English. "The hostel has been in exietenre for some years now—since the war and many thousands or emigrants have passed through it. They are all eery orderly, though coming from Iles- ela as they do, and holding widely clif- terent political opinions, Says Col. It D. Barber, who Is in charge of the colony. "Once I had rather a had few min. totes when I heard what sounded like pandemonium break out in the dining - room. I immediately thought it meet be a racial riot. But my fears when got to the room were soon allayed, One man -who lead sat clown at table next to another had newel to file cover that lais companion was the 01011 who had saved him train time -ohm twenty years before, and they had nal seen each other from that day. It was certainly a dramatic meeting, and the two proclaimed their mutual delight n rea half-hearted fashion. There is a resident Rabbi, who lins had 'the pleasant duty of marrying more than oue couple. But the most remarkable fact concerning the place s that some of Ore English shops in he near vicinity of the hostel bear notices on their walls and windows written In Russian. Walking along be nottutry road, ming these signs Ind meeting 1110 groups of refugees ut for a stroll, one might easily megIne that one had been suddenly ransported to scene foreign land. Schoolboy "Hovvers." Trafalgav Square Is where the battle f Ithetlege VMS fought, St, Paul's Cathedra! eas butit by Threlember Cohanbus. Lopclon was spoiled by the Greet etre. It le math worse titan 11 115011 to The ecpital of Norway le Clieletian. ty --es.— ' Too Many Lettere, "Great Scott! Whet on earth has that fool of a Jeweller been playing at with this ring?" exclaimed a young man, gazing at the eugagernent ring in he hand. "Whati the trouble?" asked his friend, re "Why, 1 told libt 10 01150500 'Pram A to Z"—front Arthur to Zoete—on the inside of It; and the idiot hall Pet In the whole bioroming alphabet!" Lace Worth More Thah Gold. The lithe/ft pole over mild for taco was toll times Its weight to geld. Lettere in sloping Print. are in hee- teries, relqUette is a noise 7011 (1(1(31,5 when you sneeze, Obliged to Call Wife, He employed every expedient he knew to make the kettle boil, Ito burned up a great quantity ee adjaren furniture without suetess. 310 almost demolished ibo kitchen in an itrifortuhete experiment with kerosene. oil, Pinally, to his chagrin, he was ob. liged, to mill on his wife. showed biin a echenes Ile had not thought of at all. She put eomu wafer in the kettle.